[OSM-talk] tweeks to JOSM to make working with relationships easier

[David Earl]

On 24/10/2007 11:42, Peter Miller wrote:
>> Peter
>>
>> you can change the colour scheme, in Preferences > Display settings.
>>
> 
> Thanks, but I was suggesting that primary roads were a different colour from
> residential roads from rivers from railways etc. I don't think that is
> currently possible is it? I was also proposing that the colours used should
> be the same as the ones in PotLatch.

The mappaint plugin allows you to differentiate between differently 
tagged ways by colour and thickness like this, though if you don't like 
the defaults you need to edit the definition file - there isn't a 
dialogue AFAIK.

But I don't think it lets you colour things differently according to 
whether they're in a relation or not as you originally mentioned.


>> David
>>
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to allow relationships to have relationships? Ie a
>> Way
>>> is a member of 'NCN1' and 'NCN1' is a member of 'National Cycle Route'.

Relations can already have relations as members. However, I don't think 
I'd recommend building the hierarchy you suggested, though it would be 
possible. If the relevant relations are tagged 
'type=route,route=bicycle,network=uk_ncn' (for example) you could access 
the relevant relations by finding all relations with those tags, which 
seems simpler to me, though it isn't "direct access" as it would be if 
you had all the way references grouped in a relation.

David